Chrismons And Chrismon Patterns

Chrismons are Christmas decorations with Christian symbols on them. They help Christians to remember that Christmas is the celebration of Jesus's birthday. They are often used on Christmas Trees in Churches and Christians homes. They were first ma...

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Three Fish-- One of the early signs of Christendom was the fish. The Greek word for fish is IXTHUS. This is an acrostic for the Greek words for Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior. Circle Variations--The top circle is superimposed with chi and a smal...

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What do the individual Chrismons mean? Each Chrismon pattern page has information, or origin of the symbol. Can Chrismons be used at Easter as well as at Christmas? Yes, though traditionally they are used at Christmas, since Chrismons celebrate th...

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Ornaments made from Christian symbols (or Chrismons, a contraction for 'Christ monograms') were first developed by Frances Spencer and the women of the Ascension Lutheran Church in Danville, VA. Many churches display a Chrismon tree during the Adv...

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Each year our church would get out our box of old, tired, soiled Chrismons to decorate the tree and realize that we had let yet another year go by without replacing them. Well a few years ago I set about, relatively early in October, to find new o...

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We now have two websites; Rufty's Chrismon Shop and Rufty's Christian Symbols.
The Chrismon website consists of the original Chrismon Books and all necessary
supplies for completing those patterns. The Christian Symbols website contains our
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The cup symbolizing the sacrament of Eucharist or Communion; it also represents forgiveness and reconciliation with God.
A King's Crown is the symbol of royal power and authority. It symbolizes Jesus as King of the Jews, in fulfillment of prophet...